Kristin Strømsnes

Biography

Kristin Strømsnes is professor of political science at the department of comparative politics at University of Bergen, where she also served as deputy head of department and director of research for the last four years. Her main research and teaching fields are political mobilization and participation. She has published extensively on the Norwegian environmental movement and on civil society and the voluntary sector within a Norwegian and Scandinavian context. She has also conducted research on the Sámi indigenous people in Norway.

At the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies (CES), Strømsnes will research why protest movements adopt different strategies to influence politics, and how these choices affect their likelihood of success. Focusing on key climate-related protest movements in Norway, her project will examine three strategic approaches: street activism, litigation, and electoral politics. The project seeks to improve understanding of how protest movements operate, how they are received, and how they shape broader processes of societal development.

This information is accurate for the time period that the visiting scholar is affiliated with CES.

Affiliations

• Professor of Political Science, University of Bergen
• Senior Researcher, The Norwegian Research Centre
• Visiting Scholar 2025-2026, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University